On Wednesday evening, the Israeli army issued demolition orders targeting more than 60 Palestinian homes in the Jenin refugee camp, located in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. This decision comes as part of its ongoing large-scale offensive and displacement campaign.
Media sources confirmed that the army distributed maps of the refugee camp, marking the homes slated for demolition across several neighborhoods.
The targeted areas include Al-Hawashin, Azzam Mosque, Jouret Ath-Thahab, as-Samran, Al-Aloub, and the Jenin Club area.
Notably, the Israeli army has already demolished numerous homes in these neighborhoods and now plans to destroy more to clear pathways for its armored military vehicles.
To date, the Israeli army has fully or partially demolished 512 homes and structures within the refugee camp.
Earlier Wednesday, Israeli soldiers continued their aggression on the city of Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank for the 58th consecutive day. This includes demolishing and burning homes, as well as converting others into military barracks.
On Tuesday night, the soldiers set fire to homes near the Saadi family’s assembly hall inside the Jenin refugee camp.
They also continue to block the road leading to Jenin Governmental Hospital from the camp’s entrance with dirt mounds.
The ongoing aggression by Israeli soldiers on the city and Jenin refugee camp, now in its 58th day, has resulted in the deaths of 34 Palestinians, alongside dozens of injuries and numerous abductions.
On Wednesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted eight Palestinians from Farkha village, southwest of Salfit, and one in Beit Sira, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
At dawn on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man, Odai Adel Al-Qatouni, and injured several others during an invasion of the Al-Ein, Balata, and Askar refugee camps in Nablus, located in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed that a former political prisoner, Kathem Issa Zawahra, 31, who was shot and injured prior to being abducted by Israeli soldiers on February 2, 2024, has succumbed to the severe wounds.
At dawn Tuesday, a young man was killed, and three others were injured, by Israeli occupation forces in Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, at dawn on Tuesday, the killing of Khaled Saleh Qaraan (25 years old), and the injury of three others, by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets, during their raid into the city of Qalqilia.
It is worth mentioning that, this year alone, the Israeli army has killed 108 Palestinians (49 in Jenin, 19 in Tubas, 14 in Tulkarem, 13 in Nablus, 5 in Hebron, 3 in Bethlehem, 2 in Qalqilia, 1 in Salfit, and 1 in Jerusalem, in addition to injuring and abducting hundreds across the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday evening and night, the Israeli army continued its bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians across the besieged and starved coastal enclave.
At dawn on Wednesday, the Israeli army intensified its bombing and shelling across the devastated Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of at least 14 Palestinians and injuries to dozens more.
On Tuesday, the Israeli army resumed the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 429 Palestinians and wounding more than 562, most of whom were children and women, in just one day.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli military killed at least 48,572 Palestinians and injured over 112,032 , mostly children, women, and the elderly. Thousands remain trapped beneath the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings in the besieged and starved Gaza Strip.